-Of Mr. Henry Scougal. 4 I l fwercd.. their impertinent quibbles. There were no debates he was more ,cautious to meddle with, than thofe about the decrees of God; being fenfible how. much _ChriC.· tbnity had fuffered, bymens· diving into things beyond their reach; fecret things . belonging to the Lord, and things revealed to us and our children. But ·he had always·– a deep fenfe of the powerful efficacy of God's graceupon our fouls ; and ,that all;~. our goodwas intirely to be afcribed to God, and all our.evil to ourfelves•. He ufed once·. a-year, (when tHe youth were mofi: fre~ quent) by a very ferious and affectionate difcourfe in Engli_;1;, to-lay before then1 the weig_ht and · importance of the n1inifiry ·;– how they flrould demean thenifelvc·s 110\V while they :were cmtdidates for that holy funCtion; how carefully they ought to . a~ void all ftich evil convtrfation as. might give their n1inds a bad · tincture; ·what· courfe of fludy they ought to· take; in– viting them to a private refort unto him, and expreffing a mofi affeCtionate <;oncern . for·them. It was alfo his great care, to n1ake his private converfation with them as ufeful as his publick.. . And bythis indeed ~ he hoped -to do n1o!l good. They had always free M n1 3 . aGcefs~
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